gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV

[Brian Murray]

I was trying to edit a floatnote in Firefox when I received this crash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Aug 24 10:39:45 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ExecutableTimestamp: 1503037349
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-extensions' b"['<email address hidden>', 'multi-monitors-add-on@spin83', '<email address hidden>']"
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' b"['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'terminator.desktop', 'virt-manager.desktop', 'chromium-browser.desktop', 'firefox.desktop', 'simple-scan.desktop']"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-16 (1681 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130116)
ProcCmdline: gnome-shell --sm-client-id 10aeea5677451824be15003363904125100000082680000
ProcCwd: /home/bdmurray
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f8bcafaf615: testb $0x1,(%rax)
 PC (0x7f8bcafaf615) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "(%rax)" (0x7f8b810fffe8) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 () at /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 meta_run () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip libvirt libvirtd lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1712880, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.